Archive for January, 2015

399th played so farGenre: Adventure Platform: DS Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Prior to us playing the game for this blog, I mostly knew the Phoenix Wright series through word of mouth. People got quite obsessed with it for a while – something slightly obnoxiously so – and beyond that I never […]

398th played so farGenre: Racing Platform: Playstation/PC Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Psygnosis Publisher: Psygnosis Wipeout was one of the Playstation’s launch titles (the PC doesn’t ever matter in these discussions), a fast and slick racer that found its place through its association with the dance and house music culture that was big in the […]

397th played so farGenre: Action/Fighting Platform: Gameboy Advance Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Hitman/Treasure Publisher: Sega I don’t really know manga or anime. I’ve been exposed through some things (mostly through Peter), but it has never been a major focus of mine. Astro Boy seems like it’s a fairly major franchise – 4 seasons and […]

396th played so farGenre: Platform Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Time for a bit of catch up! In 1984, after gaining fame in his maze, Pac Man breaks out into his own platformer. Normally these genre shifts tend to be, at the best, dicey, but its presence on this list […]

395th played so farGenre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Various Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Infinity Ward Publisher: Activision “No Russians” As might have become clear from our earlier writing, Call of Duty is a decently done series, with the first Modern Warfare title holding up better than the first game we played. There’s just not much […]

394th played so farGenre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Mac Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Bungie Software Publisher: Bungie Software Some games on the list draw our eye simply because of its lineage. Before they became famous from the Halo series (and before they were bought by Microsoft), they worked on two series. The strategy series Myth […]

393rd played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Gottlieb Publisher: Gottlieb We have many reasons why we pick a game, something we sometimes expand on – whether it’s random or genre-focused. Q*Bert has a clearer, more frivolous reason: We were watching Wreck-It Ralph again and Q*Bert characters have a small […]

392nd played so far Genre: Adventure Platform: Various Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Lucasfilm Games Publisher: Lucasfilm Games Loom has been on my radar for quite a while. As a Lucasarts game, it should be something I’d want to play after the likes of The Secret of Monkey Island or Sam & Max Hit the […]